I HAVE TO BE SPECIAL!!! PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEE!!!

  • @Jackcooper
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    1041 year ago

    Social media is a plague

  • @[email protected]
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    771 year ago

    The crime imho is not cosplaying as a doctor on Instagram but applying for medical jobs with a fake resume with fake degrees

    I see nothing wrong on the screenshots of the now deleted Instagram profile, she’s doing paid modeling “this nail polish is so pretty”, “this scrub is so comfy” or saying the usual bullshit “remember to eat 2 fruit a day” but nowhere where she’s claiming to be a doctor or giving dangerous medical advice. Less dangerous than “doctor” Oz in the States.

    if you get a job as a project manager in an hospital just because you knew that they didn’t check and lied to have 3 medical degrees, that’s a worse problem

    • @[email protected]
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      311 year ago

      the Facebook post has definitely got some misleading wording, though. “Trust me I know many physicians delay self care when we have 100 items on our plate”, for example, sounds like she’s trying to imply that she’s one of the physicians without explicitly saying it.

    • @StorminNorman
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      161 year ago

      Doctor Oz is actually a doctor though, despite everything. Used to be one of the most respected cardiothoracic surgeons in the world. Then his tv show happened…

      • @cubism_pitta
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        201 year ago

        While that is different… That is much more frightening to consider.

        • @StorminNorman
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          81 year ago

          It kinda is. The dude could probably take out your lungs and heart with his eyes closed. But he got corrupted.

          • @[email protected]
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            191 year ago

            The dude could probably take out your lungs and heart with his eyes closed.

            To be fair, so could I.

  • Margot Robbie
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    611 year ago

    From one Australian woman to another, she should have used that energy and tried acting instead.

    Everybody plays a character of the person they want to present to the world on social media, so there needs to be more awareness that even if you can see their faces and hear their voices, you still can’t blindly trust people to be who they claimed to be online, and you should always exercise a healthy dose of skepticism on what you read or watched.

    Trust me, after all, why would Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie ever lie to you?

      • Margot Robbie
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        131 year ago

        I’m not a doctor, I just played a clown doctor on TV.

        Don’t go takin’ medical advice from me on anythin’ now.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Don’t go takin’ medical advice from me on anythin’ now.

          Would this be considered medical advice?

        • @RizzRustbolt
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          Every molecule in my brain screams about it’s not. But there’s still that tiny little comedian in my brain that goes, “what if there were a dinosaur in that lake?”

          • Margot Robbie
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            71 year ago

            Are you calling me the Loch Ness Monster? Gasp.

            Anyways, I would need about 3 dollars and 50 cents from you, please.

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              Here’s your tree fiddy

              Wait a minute, now I realise you’re a 200 feet tall creature from the mesozoic era!

              • Margot Robbie
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                11 year ago

                That’s 👋acting👋.

                Oscar-worthy acting.

    • Sal
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      61 year ago

      Because it is funny.

      • Margot Robbie
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        91 year ago

        Messing with tech nerds IS really funny.

        (I still 💖 you guys though)

    • Solivine
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      61 year ago

      You can’t even trust those are the actual people you see with deepfakes becoming more popular.

  • @[email protected]
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    491 year ago

    There are a ton of people pretending to be doctors on Tik Tok. Anybody wearing scrubs and a stethoscope at home is LARPing.

    • @LavaPlanet
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      61 year ago

      I always wonder when scrubs go on / get swapped out for normal atire.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’d actually believe it if they looked like they had a long shift, and a lot of hospital shifts are already 12 hours, at least in my experience supporting various medical systems (as in groups of hospitals, clinics, etc).

        Then they can have their scrubs on for a short little “check in” with viewers. Most people who wear scrubs sweat their asses off all day, and most likely have at least one strangers bodily fluid on them. They change out of it.

        My wife, for example once came home, stripped in the laundry room and tossed it in the wash, then went to shower. She wouldn’t speak of what happened. Her position is also unlikely to deal with bodily fluids, but there we were. She also carried a pair of scrubs in her car trunk in case she needed to change mid shift.

        Shit, sometimes quite literally, happens in hospitals and no one is immune.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          My sister is the same, she’s an ER nurse in a high traffic area and almost always strips in the garage and throw’s everything in a hot wash. Based on her stories, I’d be burning a few of the scrubs lol.

  • @[email protected]
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    431 year ago

    "Defence barrister Erasmus Lovell-Jones said his client had an underlying psychological fragility which made it difficult for her to say no in social situations.

    He said Karezi – who was studying a bachelor’s degree in health science – met a person who believed she was studying medicine, and when she did not correct them it spawned a misunderstanding that opened doors for her."

    What kind of horse shit defense is that? Someone should check if this defense attorney has underlying phycological fragility themself.

    • @[email protected]
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      291 year ago

      His job is to defend her to the best of his ability. If there is no good defense for what she did then he is obligated to make a bad one as long as that defense doesn’t involve direct lies.

    • @SuckMyWang
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      101 year ago

      I have a psychological fragility that makes it hard for me to not steal spirits from the liquor store and I demand justice.

        • @SuckMyWang
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          21 year ago

          I’ve tried this but the fermentation process didn’t go well and it tasted funny

    • DarkThoughts
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      101 year ago

      Sounds more like she saw a golden opportunity for her fraudster mindset.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      21 year ago

      underlying psychological fragility

      Jesus Christ.

      It’s things like this which gives ammo to conservatives to call the next generation weak.

      • @SuckMyWang
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        31 year ago

        In their defence, this is their only legal defence so they’re basically trying to worm their way out getting in trouble for being a liar so I’m not too sure they’re concerned about using made up and exaggerated statements for things that are subjective. It’s also a lawyer saying this, I’d argue that lawyers lean conservative but have no idea really. Also, from what I’ve seen when a liberal does this they’re weak and when a conservative does this it’s smart or playing the system, it’s always been a bad faith argument anyway

  • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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    291 year ago

    Oof. She is a student of health science. I wonder if her school will kick her out, because she didn’t just lie a few times, she went 80 posts deep and even took sponsorship deals during the pandemic.

    • @Kinglink
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      111 year ago

      Ooof. I wonder if she was going to try to be a doctor… and I wonder how ethics boards and such will view actions like these. Probably just blew up her entire career with some stupidity.

    • @jcit878
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      41 year ago

      classic case of turning one lie into a full blown personality you can’t find an easy way out of

  • Rose56
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    131 year ago

    She even applied for jobs, what is wrong with these people? It’s not only tik tok, but didn’t any family member saw her? And stop her? They should also start asking for certification copies.

    • @[email protected]
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      More than ask for certification copies, which can be easily faked, setup a way for hospitals to check degrees on an online database. We’re not in the 1960s anymore

      • livus
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        @Moonrise2473 i

        I thought there was? The universities here have online databases where you type in the person’s name and it tells you their degrees from that university.

      • Tar_Alcaran
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        31 year ago

        Isn’t there? My university has a simple site to check if diploma/degree numbers are real, and I got mine a pretty long time ago.

  • @Kinglink
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    121 year ago

    You don’t need someone to tell you don’t pretend to be a doctor. Maybe you do need to tell people not to be a piece of shit, but let me help.

    Stop being pieces of shit.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    The internet is too much for humans. It’s our downfall accelerated. We were already probably doomed. This cranked it up to certainty.

    • @5BC2E7
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      51 year ago

      If it’s any consolation we only need a few individuals making progress for humanity. We have always had a large percentage of people that don’t add value and we are still making progress

  • @TokenBoomer
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    91 year ago

    There goes my Halloween costume.

  • @SuckMyWang
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    81 year ago

    What about free speech? /s

    • @[email protected]
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      If you’re taking doctor advice on social media, you’re the problem.

      Ironically, measures like this just serve to reinforce people’s trust in social media as a legitimate source of information.

      • Carighan Maconar
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        No, both sides are. It’s not okay to pretend to be a doctor and masquerade paid product promotion as medical advise.

        But it’s also inherently not okay to look at TikTok (or something comparable) for medical advise, that’s just obvious bullshit. And any even remotely reasonable person should intuitively know that.

        • @SuckMyWang
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          You see you went wrong when you assumed there aren’t lots of unreasonable people who don’t intuitively know that

          • Carighan Maconar
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            21 year ago

            Oh I explicitly mention that in the last sentence.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    We had someone in our online friends group saying she was a physician as well. It began to sound weirder and weirder based on some wrong medical stuff she was saying and because we found out about a friend of her and could narrow down her age. Turned out she was I think doing her first medical education year for the second time

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Australia is a hoax though most Australia co actors who play Australian doctors have real medical skills and training.